For Whose Protection? Reproductive Hazards and Exclusionary Policies in the United States and Britain. (book reviews)

In 1978, five women who worked in the lead pigments department of the American Cyanamid Company were sterilized in order to keep their jobs. They took this drastic measure in response to American Cyanamid's "exclusionary policy." This policy prohibited fertile women from working in areas that would expose them to substances suspected of being reproductive hazards. In her book For Whose Protection?, Sally Kenney examines this incident and other exclusionary policies in the United States and Britain that restricted women's access to the workplace.

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